Whitman pair latest mother and son to be arrested

Tuesday

May 26, 2009 at 12:01 AMMay 26, 2009 at 4:12 AM

For the second time in two weeks, police on the South Shore have arrested a mother and son. Matthew F. Louis, a convicted child rapist from Whitman, was charged with shoplifting, drug possession and failure to register as a sex offender in Florida. His mother, Jean M. Louis, was charged with driving with a suspended license. On Mother's Day, an Abington woman and her son were charged with holdups in Whitman and Abington.

A shoplifting suspect was arrested for alleged possession of controlled substances and failing to register as a sex offender in Florida, while police charged his mother with driving with a suspended license.

Louis is a registered Level 3 sex offender, according to the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board. He was convicted of raping a child with force in 1997. He was found guilty in 2004 of failing to register as a sex offender.